Approve invoices easily. Anywhere. Anytime

Next® is easy on the eyes. And easy to use. A modern and easy-to-use interface lets everybody approve their invoices from anywhere. Keeping them within their delegated authority. You will love getting things done whether you are in the office, on the next floor, down the road, at home, or across the globe. No pile of invoices waiting for you when your return.

Captures any invoice you get.
Now and in the future

Next® processes invoices in any format and from any source, such as paper, PDF, XML, and EDIFACT. Invoices are indexed manually, using barcodes, OCR (optical character recognition), or by analyzing XMLs and EDIs. Standard captures are available for online purchase portals, and integrating Next® with others is easily done using standard APIs.

Deeply integrated into your workday

Next® integrates deeply with most business systems. It validates suppliers and utilizes tax codes, purchase orders, and charts of accounts from the business system in place. And of course it automatically makes postings and releases payments. From Dynamics NAV, click once to access any supplier invoice. From ASPECT4, click once to access an entire supplier folder. Next® integrates easily and seamlessly with any other systems you have in place. RESTfull APIs make that part real easy.

Powerful account coding

Code invoices automatically based on the rules in your business system and in Next®. Designated users can easily add or change coding according to their authorization and organizational role. Next® offers full support for multidimensional accounting, multiple tax codes, open and closed periods, personal account plans… the lot. Comprehensive, yet easy to use, with customizable forms.

Bulletproof audit log

Every action is logged: stating who, what, and when. Down to the millisecond. This makes it easy for the auditors to check on compliance. For Accounts Payable to look into who is delaying a specific approval. And for you to check on who had a particular invoice before you.

Best at invoice approval. Ready for much more

Next® Invoices is the best-in-class invoice processing solution. Optimized by the experts: managers, specialists, clerks, and accountants in companies throughout the world. Next® Invoices is based on the Next® Smart Process Application platform and hence contains a full BPMN2-compliant process engine, capable of much more than processing supplier invoices. Ready for any business process in need of structure and optimization.

And that’s not all

Cost invoices and stocked items

You need different approval processes for individual cost invoices and invoices for production materials and other stocked goods. Next comes with workflows for both, and the option to define more.

3-way matching

In case you use purchase orders for selected parts of your procurement, Next automatically performs a 3-way-match between; the invoice, your PO, and the delivery. If the match is acceptable, the invoice is approved automatically. Untouched by humans.

﻿Distribute invoices for approval completely automatic and lightning fast. Based on company rules and data, in place of humans trying their best to remember who’s in charge of what. Governed by organizational roles instead of individual names or emails. Always in line with the delegated authority.

Escalation, and substitutes

Next knows who to ask if you get an invoice above your pay-grade, and who to tell if you keep ignoring reminders. When you leave for vacation, simply tell the system. Automatic delegation rules take over, and make sure that predetermined substitutes handle approvals.

Overview and statistics

Being in control. Knowing at any time exactly with whom every single invoice sits. And knowing when to expect approval. Having a helping hand reminding those who forget. You now have the tool to pay your invoices on time. And the statistics to help improve further.

Invoice archive included

Next Invoices comes with a complete Invoice archive. No more filing paper copies in ring binders, or storing PDFs on fileservers. Access invoices from within your business system or from outside using an easy browser interface on any PC, Mac, or tablet. This may very well save you some serious ERP license money.

Easy implementation

Next is easy on the eyes. And easy to use. You will need little or no training at all. Next has been rolled out in organizations with several hundred users, where the required training effort was measured in minutes. Not hours, or days. Think big, and start small. Add features as you go.

Countries and languages

Next Invoices works great in any small local organization. Next also handles the requirements of multinational corporations in multiple business units, in multiple countries, multiple currencies, multiple business systems, and users requiring to be served in multiple local languages.

﻿Scalable

﻿Next serves 5 or 10 casual users well. Next is however designed for high volume processing. The Invoice archive captures documents at the speed of light; 4.6 million documents per hour on a single server. The process engine handles users by the thousands, and transactions by the millions.

Enterprise grade security

Next lets in the right people — and keeps out the rest. Your access to invoices, account codes, and approving is fully controlled by permissions. Nobody approves anything they are not authorized to. And no one sees anything not meant for their eyes. Security is built in.

Good to know. For some

Ready-to-Go

Next® Invoices is a complete standard product working right out of the box. Based on experiences from myriads of other businesses. Therefore you get the most "bang for the buck". No demanding project. No costly implementation. No unpleasant surprises. We call it 'Ready-to-Go'.

Seamless
software updates

Next® Invoices has excellent support for software updates. This means that as the software evolves and new features are added, updates are immediately available. And with a one-click update to bring new functionality to all users. No complicated migrations. No extra work in IT.

Standard. Yet extensible

Architected for extensibility, Next® will not limit you. Almost anything can be customized, to meet your needs. Need to see payment history data from SAP? Or want to see an address with Google Maps instead of just plain text? If those are your needs Next® will take you there. Still with seamless software updates.

Fits in with your stuff

Next® Invoices runs on the servers you prefer (Windows, Unix, Linux, OSX, or IBM i). Even in the cloud. Amazing performance on impressively moderate hardware. With no surprise costs to external databases. Next® even syncs it's users easily with your AD, or any other directory services.